#comedy

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years. ↗

— Russell Baker

#been #canned #comedy #dead #grafted

Most modern comedy is crap. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#crap #modern #most

You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#audiences #come #comedy #doing #draw

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy. ↗

— Bjork

#country #critical #criticism #english #good

I will always love to perform standup comedy. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#comedy #i #love #perform #standup

I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny. ↗

— Illeana Douglas

#brooks #comedy #day #fantasy #find

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

#comedy #ended #existence #exorcist #me

I hate being mean. I watch those roasts on Comedy Central and they make the hair on the back of my neck stand up. ↗

— Julie Brown

#being #being mean #central #comedy #comedy central

I'm doing comedy development at National Lampoon. ↗

— Kato Kaelin

#development #doing #i #national

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas. ↗

— Michael Caine

#comedy #dramas #every #get #got